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  • The Fear of Insignificance

    Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century

    by C. Strenger ...
    This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system. ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Freud's Legacy in the Global Era

    by Carlo Strenger ...
    Series series Relational Perspectives Book Series
    Freud’s Legacy in the Global Era presents a radically new perspective on Freud’s relevance today as a forerunner of the contemporary evolutionary neurosciences also steeped in the tradition of humanistic thought. Carlo Strenger shows how globalisation has produced new theoretical, practical and clinical issues for psychoanalysis, which can best be understood by drawing on influences from economics ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Smart Wife

    Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

    by Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy ...
    Get a bold, new perspective on the problems with ‘smart wives’—feminized AI assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy and perpetually available.Meet the Smart Wife—at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Designed Self

    Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities

    by Carlo Strenger ...
    Series series Relational Perspectives Book Series
    What can contemporary psychoanalysis bring to the understanding of Generation X, a cohort for whom the trivialization of a dizzying array of possible experiences teamed with the pressure to lead spectacular lives often leads to diffuse feelings of confusion, depression, and disorientation. The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Smart Energy Technologies in Everyday Life

    Smart Utopia?

    by Y. Strengers ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book interrogates the global utopian vision for smart energy technologies and the new energy consumer intended to realise it. It enriches and extends the possibilities of four residential smart strategies: energy feedback, dynamic pricing, home automation and micro-generation, focusing on how they are being integrated into everyday practice. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Design Ethnography

    Research, Responsibilities, and Futures

    by Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors, Debora Lanzeni, Melisa Duque, Shanti Sumartojo, Yolande Strengers ...
    This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement.The authors, specialising in design ethnography across the fields of anthropology, sociology, human geography, pedagogy and design research, draw on their extensive international ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Future of Prejudice

    Psychoanalysis and the Prevention of Prejudice

    by George Awad, Ira Brenner, James Gilligan, Forrest Hamer, Anna Higgitt, David Knowlton, Hanna Mann-Shalvi, Nadia Ramzy, Frank Sacco, Jill Scharff0, Carlo Strenger1, Hans-Jurgen Wirth2, Elizabeth Young-Bruehl3, Shashi Tharoor4, Salman Akhtar5, Peter Fonagy6, Henri Parens7, David E. Scharff8, Stuart W. Twemlow0 ...
    Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate prejudice. ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Psychoanalysis and Theism

    Critical Reflections on the Grünbaum Thesis

    by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Michael P. Carroll, Harriet Lutzky, Jerry S. Piven, David Livingstone Smith, Carlo Strenger, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Adolf Grünbaum ...
    How should we approach the psychological study of religion, and how relevant is classical psychoanalysis, identified with the writings of Sigmund Freud, to the understanding of religion? Freud's writings on religion have been discussed often and continue to attract attention and debate. Psychoanalysis and Theism starts with an essay by Adolf Grünbaum, one of the world's leading philosophers of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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    The Smart Wife

    Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

    by Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy ...
    Narrated by Cat Gould ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    Meet the Smart Wife—at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability

    Beyond behaviour change

    Edited by Yolande Strengers, Cecily Maller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption. Many calls to action have focused on individual behaviour or technological innovation, with relative silence from the social sciences on other modes and methods of intervening in social life. This book shows how we can go beyond behaviour change in the pursuit of sustainability.Inspired ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the Judge of His Creation

    A Study of the Book of Revelation

    by Marianne Strenger ...
    Do you know what the image of the antichrist is? Do you know what the symbolism of the number 666 of the antichrist means? When Jesus writes the letters to the churches in Revelation, He is writing to us now. Do you understand what He is expecting in us? Do you know what is His view of an overcomer in Him? Come, learn the great adventure of knowing what the symbolism is in this great book of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans

    Nature, Materials and Technologies

    Edited by Cecily Maller, Yolande Strengers ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The robots are coming! So too is the ‘age of automation’, the march of ‘invasive’ species, more intense natural disasters, and a potential cataclysm of other unprecedented events and phenomena of which we do not yet know, and cannot predict. This book is concerned with how to account for these non-humans and their effects within theories of social practice. In particular, this provocative ... Read more

    $80.09 USD